MPs experimented with painful period simulator

Green deputies Sébastien Peytavie and Marie-Charlotte Garin will defend a menstrual cessation proposal in the Assembly at the end of March.

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The deputy for Paris, Clément Beaune, on February 13, 2024 at the National Assembly, in Paris.  (MATHILDE KACZKOWSKI / HANS LUCAS / AFP)

Little cries of pain. Green MPs Sébastien Peytavie and Marie-Charlotte Garin had some of their male colleagues test a painful period simulator, while their bill to introduce a menstrual cessation must be debated from March 27 in the National Assembly. The text, which must be studied within the framework of the environmentalist parliamentary niche, proposes to people suffering from incapacitating periods, and who can justify it by a medical certificate, to take up to 13 days of sick leave per year, without deficiency.

In a video published on X (formerly Twitter) Friday March 22, several deputies from all sides take part in the exercise… not without pain. “It actually hurts really bad!”reacts in particular Benjamin Saint-Huile, deputy for Liot du Nord. “Very painful”, also commented on former minister Clément Beaune, who once again became a Renaissance deputy for Paris. “It’s a good experience, it allows us to better put ourselves in our place… It’s horrible in fact”reacted the deputy Les Républicains de l’Oise Maxime Minot.

In February, the socialist group in the Senate failed to pass a similar text. The Minister of Health, Frédéric Valletoux, was open to discussion to “continue to break taboos”but he was opposed to this generalization which “turns our back on social dialogue”evoking in particular the “risk of discrimination in hiring”.


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